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<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e6bbe089-7fff-0b30-db45-2b00f4481d5a"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The University of Alabama at Birmingham offers an abundance of resources to facilitate (UAB) encourages student innovation and entrepreneurshipthrough multiple avenues. Several This includes: general courses that promote the concepts and ideas of the assets available to I&E, Speaker Series, newsletters, university students to help start or grow an idea are the iLab (Innovation Lab), -wide conferences about the Innovation Depot, and The Edge importance of ChaosI&E. The iLab In addition to this, there is also an area located within the Innovation Depotentrepreneurship minor, certification programs, a start up incubator for the greater Birmingham areastudent organizations, where university and campus-wide competitions that allow students can grow ideas to become more involved in the campus ecosystem and collaborate with other young entrepreneursput I&E concepts into action. Lister Hill Library provides a creative spaceStudents also have the option of going to collaborative spaces such as the Makerspace, The Edge of Chaos, for students and faculty or the Project Lab to step beyond the core curriculum develop their ideas and explore topics that they may find interesting or essential in understanding topics necessary for academic growthbuild prototypes.</span></span></span></span>

<span style= "font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e6bbe089-7fff-0b30-db45-2b00f4481d5a"><span style="font-sizevariant-numeric:mediumnormal;">Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></span> = == <span style="fontfont-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-sizespace:smallpre-wrap;"><span style="font-family:arialIn addition to having many resources internally,helvetica,sans-serif;">iLab</span></span> == <span style="font-familyUAB students and faculty also have access to many external resources. UAB actively encourages faculty to develop their entrepreneurial pursuits by linking them directly to opportunities to commercialize their ideas:arialwhether they are centered around their own biomedical research conducted in their labs and funded through the NIH,helveticaor independent,sans-serif;">The UAB Innovation Lab (iLab) is a partnership between solution driven ideas that need external funding from local investors in order to reach their full potential. Faculty have the UAB CSOB and Innovation Depot; it serves as a conduit between students option of applying for seed funding from UAB’s Institutional Funding pool, which is comprised of donations from more than 25 of Birmingham’s local businesses and VCs. Because of UAB’s close proximity to the entrepreneurial community. iLab opened its doors in Summer 2014 and serves as a resource Economic Development Partnership of Alabama (the EDPA), Faculty are able to easily access the resources necessary for them to apply for students interested in entrepreneurship i6 grants - funds set aside solely to translate ideas and innovation. The Lean Startup Model is used as the iLab common languageinventions into products, services, companies, and jobs. Programming offered by the iLab provides students with the handsAcademic researchers and private investigators are also encourage to participate in I-on learning needed for success in the workplace and is Corps, a three week program designed to support students as they incubate help faculty explore and accelerate evaluate the market potential for their startupsresearch.</span> == <span style="fontAlong with access to mentorship from industry veterans, participants in I-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arialCorps are able to become integrated within the general downtown Birmingham business scene through various networking opportunities and mixers,helveticagain knowledge of the business model canvas through one on one training sessions, a chance for up to $2,500 in funding directly from UAB’s division of the program,sansand the opportunity to apply for the NSF National I-serif;"Corps program $50,000 grant award.</span></span>Entrepreneurship Minor</span></span>    <span style== "font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">This experiential program is designed for students in any major other than business. It is designed to complement your core skills <span id="docs-internal-guid-e6bbe089-7fff-0b30-db45-2b00f4481d5a"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UAB also boasts non-aggressive Intellectual Property rules, encouraging UAB faculty, employees, and knowledge from your chosen majorstudents to discuss scientific discoveries and possible inventions with their patent office as early in the research as is possible in order to navigate important issues such as commercial potential, intellectual property rights, and the timing of public disclosures. Upon completion you’ll Patents can be ready to launch a new venture around your passiondirectly filed through the University, and if the legal fees are covered by UAB, contribute they may be entitled to royalties and a team possibly partial or growing company and think entrepreneurially regardless total ownership/equity of your chosen careerthe innovation in question if applicable. Disclosure of discoveries and inventions which appear to have commercial value are made to the UAB Institution for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.<According the Board’s Rule 509, all faculty members, university employees, and students, as a condition of their employment and/span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arialor enrollment,helvetica,sans-serif;">Business Research Certificate Program</span></span> == <span style="fontare required report all inventions and discoveries that were made while they were employed or enrolled as a student at UAB in order to make IP disputes and filing as seamless as possible. In order to make navigating the technology transfer function as easy for campus innovators as possible, UAB has established four offices that handle issues related to filing patents and topics relating to intellectual property -family:arialthe CIRB, HIIE,helveticaOSP,sans-serif;"and OIE.</span>Each session will include demonstrations of Sterne Library databases, print materials, and reputable web sites as well as effective search strategies and tips.</span></span></span>   <span style="font-size:small;"> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">You will also have the chance for hands<span id="docs-internal-guid-on research practice each week and multiple chances to win Sterne Library travel mugs.</spane6bbe089-7fff-0b30-db45-2b00f4481d5a"> == <span style="font-sizevariant-numeric:smallnormal;"><span style="font-familyvariant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space:arial,helvetica,sanspre-serifwrap;">Wicked Problem Case Competition</span></span> == <span style="font-familyOne of the advantages UAB has for making I&E impact is its location:arialBirmingham,helvetica,sansthe most-serif;">All the easy problems have been solved, leaving us populated city in Alabama. The university partakes in an array of partnerships with what Professor John Kao calls “Wicked Problems”, those highly complex problems whose potential solutions require creative, interdisciplinary thinkingdifferent industries and businesses throughout the city. The Dean One of UAB’s most notable university-industry collaborations is iLab, which is the Collat School of Public Health will sponsor Business’s collaboration with Birmingham’s Innovation Depot. The UAB Innovation Lab (iLab) provides students with hands-on-experience and an opportunity to engage with the Wicked Problem&nbsp;Case Competition to bring together some of the best teams of thinkers from UAB and in our Birmingham entrepreneurship community . Additionally, iLab supports students with mentors to provide solutions to a particular problemhelp them develop their ideas. Regional funding is also available for aspiring entrepreneurs through EDA, Alabama Launchpad, i6 Grant, and BVC Spark Match.&nbsp; The winners of the competition will be recognized during National Public Health week on April 9th</span> == </span></span></span>   <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Graduate Certificate in Technology, Commercialization, & Entrepreneurship</spanid="docs-internal-guid-e6bbe089-7fff-0b30-db45-2b00f4481d5a"></span> == <span style="font-familyvariant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space:arial,helvetica,sanspre-serifwrap;">The graduate level Entrepreneurship CertificateOverall, also known as the Graduate Certificate in Technology Commercialization and EntrepreneurshipUAB is a powerhouse for academic, is designed to expose students (MBA clinical and non-MBA) and scientists research innovation that positively contributes to the business foundations city of entrepreneurship Birmingham, the state of Alabama, the nation and technology commercializationthe world.&nbsp; The program is designed According to blend knowledge the 2015 NSF Report on Higher Education Research and experiential learning Development Survey, UAB ranks in the top 25 federally financed public research universities. In addition to help move scientific discovery this, UAB is the largest single employer in the state of Alabama and generates significant impacts for its employees and inventions out the state in terms of the lab economic, employment and into government revenue impacts on a daily basis. The university itself, the marketplace.</span> <span style="font-family:arialUAB Health System,helvetica,sans-serif;">The intended sequence and Southern Research drive a significant amount of the courses takes the student from general awareness of issues associated with technology commercialization to running a growing technologyAlabama economy every year. The UAB community includes more than 19,500 students, 23,000 full-time and part-based businesstime employees, and 120,000 active alumni worldwide.&nbsp; It With its academic rigor, health care presence, robust research activity, and economic activity, UAB is possible for a student to progress their own intellectual property through the course sequence. However, the courses may be taken in any sequencean excellent university that cultivates innovation and entrepreneurship.</span> =</span></span></span><div><br/></div> = <span style="font-sizefamily:smallarial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-serifmedium;">Alabama LaunchpadPromoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></span> = == <span style="font-familysize:arial,helveticasmall;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Alabama Launchpad promotes and rewards high-growth, innovative startups from across Alabama. The program is for newiLab</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica, innovative ventures in the seed or earlysans-growth stages, or for existing businesses moving into serif;">The UAB Innovation Lab (iLab) is a new high-growth market. Participants have unique opportunities to access sound business advice partnership between the UAB CSOB and Innovation Depot; it serves as a conduit between students and critical startup capitalthe entrepreneurial community. Alabama Launchpad gives early-stage start-ups momentum to take an idea from concept to realityiLab opened its doors in Summer 2014 and serves as a resource for students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation.</span> <span style="fontThe Lean Startup Model is used as the iLab common language. Programming offered by the iLab provides students with the hands-family:arial,helvetica,sanson learning needed for success in the workplace and is designed to support students as they incubate and accelerate their startups.</span> == <span style="font-serifsize:small;">The proof of commercial relevance competition is for startups that need additional proof<span style="font-offamily:arial,helvetica,sans-concept work. Startups will compete for multiple proof-of-concept grants. Individual awards based on budgets submitted.serif;">Entrepreneurship Minor</span> == </span style> =="font-size:small;"> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">REV Birmingham</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">REV Birmingham (REV) revitalizes places This experiential program is designed for students in any major other than business. It is designed to complement your core skills and energizes business knowledge from your chosen major. Upon completion you’ll be ready to launch a new venture around your passion, contribute to create vibrancy in the City a team or growing company and think entrepreneurially regardless of Birminghamyour chosen career. REV is an economic development organization that stimulates business growth and improves quality of life in Birmingham’s City Center and its Neighborhood Commercial Centers. REV fuels commercial vitality through proactive business recruitment and retention activities</span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica, and by encouraging private and public investments that support economic growth citywide. REV’s initiatives generate positive results for partnerssans-serif;">Business Research Certificate Program</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arial, enhance tax revenuehelvetica, generate and sustain jobs, increase tourism and positively influence perceptions about the City sans-serif;">Each session will include demonstrations of BirminghamSterne Library databases, print materials, and reputable web sites as well as effective search strategies and tips. REV is a private-public partnership that was formed in 2012 by the strategic merger of Operation New Birmingham and Main Street Birmingham.</span</span> == <span style="font-sizefamily:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helveticaarial,helvetica,sans-serif;">CO.STARTERS</span></spanYou will also have the chance for hands-on research practice each week and multiple chances to win Sterne Library travel mugs.</span>  == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">CO.STARTERS is a platform to help communities grow local business. Every week for ten weeks, this facilitatorWicked Problem Case Competition</span></span> == <span style="font-led program helps you examine your assumptions and test whether your beliefs about your business are right. As in our BIZ 1.0 Seriesfamily:arial, CO.STARTERS applies the lean business modeling methods popular among highhelvetica,sans-growth startups to businesses of all kinds. The concepts are more common to serif;">All the high-growth technology communityeasy problems have been solved, leaving us with what Professor John Kao calls “Wicked Problems”, but we see great value in this program for any creative business venture and it’s a different model than anything currently offered locallythose highly complex problems whose potential solutions require creative, interdisciplinary thinking.</span> == <span style="font-size:smallThe Dean of the School of Public Health will sponsor the Wicked Problem&nbsp;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serifCase Competition to bring together some of the best teams of thinkers from UAB and in our community to provide solutions to a particular problem.&nbsp;">Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics (FEAST)</span>The winners of the competition will be recognized during National Public Health week on April 9th</span>  == <span style="font-familysize:arial,helveticasmall;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[http:Graduate Certificate in Technology, Commercialization, & Entrepreneurship</span></bhamfeast.com/ BHAM&nbspspan> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;FEAST] (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics) ">The graduate level Entrepreneurship Certificate, also known as the Graduate Certificate in Technology Commercialization and Entrepreneurship, is a public microdesigned to expose students (MBA and non-granting supper during which diners vote MBA) and scientists to democratically fund projects that use design as a transformative tool to better our communitythe business foundations of entrepreneurship and technology commercialization. &nbsp; The grant amount program is designed to be awarded at the 2015 dinner is $2,500 plus the proceeds from ticket blend knowledge and experiential learning to help move scientific discovery and bar sales at inventions out of the event (estimated to be an additional $2,000)lab and into the marketplace. Unlike conventional grant programs,</span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Bham FEAST brings people together for conversation centered on design and innovation. This will be Birmingham’s second FEAST, in conjunction The intended sequence of the courses takes the student from general awareness of issues associated withtechnology commercialization to running a growing technology-based business.&nbsp;[http://wwwIt is possible for a student to progress their own intellectual property through the course sequence.dwbhm.com/ Design Week Birmingham]However, the courses may be taken in any sequence.</span>  == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Education ScrimmageAlabama Launchpad</span></span> ==  <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Education Scrimmage is a fullAlabama Launchpad promotes and rewards high-daygrowth, immersive event that will bring together those who care about making a positive impact innovative startups from across Alabama. The program is for new, innovative ventures in the communityseed or early-growth stages, teach them a new set of skills (designor for existing businesses moving into a new high-thinking growth market. Participants have unique opportunities to access sound business advice and rapidcritical startup capital. Alabama Launchpad gives early-prototyping), and then immediately apply them stage start-ups momentum to take an idea from concept to real challenges being faced in the education sectorreality.</span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">At the end The proof of commercial relevance competition is for startups that need additional proof-of The Education Scrimmage, real education-focused organizations concept work. Startups will walk away with a prototyped solution to their most pressing challenges, you will have a new skillset that you can apply elsewhere, and you will have connected with others who want to make our city better.</span>&nbsp;==compete for multiple proof-of-concept grants. Individual awards based on budgets submitted.</span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Harbert Institute of Innovation and EntrepreneurshipREV Birmingham</span></span> == </spanstyle="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">REV Birmingham (REV) revitalizes places and energizes business to create vibrancy in the City of Birmingham. REV is an economic development organization that stimulates business growth and improves quality of life in Birmingham’s City Center and its Neighborhood Commercial Centers. REV fuels commercial vitality through proactive business recruitment and retention activities, and by encouraging private and public investments that support economic growth citywide. REV’s initiatives generate positive results for partners, enhance tax revenue, generate and sustain jobs, increase tourism and positively influence perceptions about the City of Birmingham. REV is a private-public partnership that was formed in 2012 by the strategic merger of Operation New Birmingham and Main Street Birmingham.</span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">CO.STARTERS</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">CO.STARTERS is a platform to help communities grow local business. Every week for ten weeks, this facilitator-led program helps you examine your assumptions and test whether your beliefs about your business are right. As in our BIZ 1.0 Series, CO.STARTERS applies the lean business modeling methods popular among high-growth startups to businesses of all kinds. The concepts are more common to the high-growth technology community, but we see great value in this program for any creative business venture and it’s a different model than anything currently offered locally.</span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics (FEAST)</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[http://bhamfeast.com/ BHAM&nbsp;FEAST] (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics) is a public micro-granting supper during which diners vote to democratically fund projects that use design as a transformative tool to better our community. The grant amount to be awarded at the 2015 dinner is $2,500 plus the proceeds from ticket and bar sales at the event (estimated to be an additional $2,000). Unlike conventional grant programs,</span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Bham FEAST brings people together for conversation centered on design and innovation. This will be Birmingham’s second FEAST, in conjunction with&nbsp;[http://www.dwbhm.com/ Design Week Birmingham].</span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Education Scrimmage</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Education Scrimmage is a full-day, immersive event that will bring together those who care about making a positive impact in the community, teach them a new set of skills (design-thinking and rapid-prototyping), and then immediately apply them to real challenges being faced in the education sector.</span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">At the end of The Education Scrimmage, real education-focused organizations will walk away with a prototyped solution to their most pressing challenges, you will have a new skillset that you can apply elsewhere, and you will have connected with others who want to make our city better.</span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Harbert Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The UAB Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HIIE) strives to be a first-in-class institution created to serve as the nexus for UAB innovation, entrepreneurial educational models, applied research, management of intellectual property and the entry point for industries seeking to collaborate with UAB, our world-class university.</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px;">&nbsp;</span>[http://www.uab.edu/research/innovation/ The Harbert Institute&nbsp]</span>[http://www.uab.edu/research/innovation/ <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">;online</span>]<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[http://www.uab.edu/research/innovation/ .]</span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Commercialization Accelerator</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The new Commercialization Accelerator will be a key component of the university’s plan to attract innovators within the university, help them refine and develop their ideas and connect them to the city’s larger innovation ecosystem to grow and mature. Headed by Max Polec, the Commercialization Accelerator will host meet-ups, design sprints, pitch competitions, and a wide range of student and community resources focused around innovation and entrepreneurship.</span> = <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Competitions</span></span> = == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Innohack</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[https://www.uab.edu/shp/hsa/innohack Innohack] is a competition that challenges participants to form innovative solutions to the biggest health care crises facing Alabama. Students and community members converge to form interdisciplinary teams from various backgrounds. Doctors, teachers, politicians, engineers, and members from every profession under the sun are represented in the competition. Think you're smarter than the rest? Think you're better than the best? Then put your mind to the test.</span>

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